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Vitamin D receptor gene and aggrecan gene polymorphisms and the risk of intervertebral disc degeneration - a meta-analysis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Xu Ge, Mei Qiang, Zhou Daijun, Wu Jinlin, Han Luo
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BACKGROUND: A series of studies have been conducted to evaluate the associations between vitamin D receptor (VDR) and aggrecan variable numbers of tandem repeat (VNTR) polymorphisms and the risk of intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD), but produced conflicting results. OBJECTIVE: we performed a meta-analysis to address a more accurate estimation of the associations between the above gene polymorphisms and the...
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